Nursing education is faced with addressing the challenge of educational reform as a result of the rapid changes in the complexity of health care delivery systems, increased technology and biomedical knowledge, a shortage in nursing faculty, and increased enrollment in schools of nursing....

This paper is a snapshot in time of the personal backgrounds, educational training, professional ranking, and productivity levels of those individuals with respect to Compendex-listed journal paper. Important questions are raised not only as to issues of age, gender, and nationality, but as to...

This study focuses on the effects of relevance and lab design on student learning within the chemistry laboratory environment. A general chemistry conductivity of solutions experiment and an upper level organic chemistry cellulose regeneration experiment were employed. In the conductivity...

Today’s enterprise networks and data centers have become very complex and havecompletely integrated themselves into every facet of their represented organization.Organizations require Internet facing services and applications to be available at anypart of the day or night. These organizations...

This paper outlines the details of an innovative postgraduate program, Master of Business (ERP), incorporating SAP R/3 System and related products that was introduced at the University of Western Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 1999. The program aims to develop integrative enterprise skills in a...

For the past two decades, accounting educators and professional bodies have made calls for internationalizing the accounting curriculum (AAA 1986; AECC 1990; AACSB 1994; IFAC 2002). The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) has established international accounting standards for worldwide...

This paper describes the function and utilisation of the Design Decision Trail as a reflective, visual narrative and qualitative audit trail for the teaching of design and related subjects. The initial inspiration came from nursing research. Using this initial impetus I significantly developed...

This paper will discuss, through the vehicle of case studies, how Design has been instrumental in regenerating local commerce. The examples will compare and contrast the UK Government’s Knowledge Transfer Partnership initiative (KTP), which has been operating for some thirty years with live...